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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 20
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Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging—Turn to the Lord and he will save thee.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Drunkenness; TG Temperance; TG Word of Wisdom."><span class='smallcaps'>Wine</span></a> <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mocking.">mocker</a>, strong drink <i>is</i> raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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The fear of a king <i>is</i> as the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 19: 12.">roaring</a> of a lion: <i>whoso</i> provoketh him to <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 17: 12.">anger</a> sinneth <i>against</i> his own soul.
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<i>It is</i> an honour for a man to cease from <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strife.">strife</a>: but every <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ether 12: 26.">fool</a> will be <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/3c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE fomenting trouble.">meddling</a>.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apathy; TG Idleness.">sluggard</a> will not plow by reason of the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB winter; i.e. after the autumn harvest.">cold</a>; <i>therefore</i> shall he beg in harvest, and <i>have</i> nothing.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 78: 2.">Counsel</a> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 11: 26.">heart</a> of man <i>is like</i> deep <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 18: 4.">water</a>; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
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The just <i>man</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walketh</a> in his <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Integrity.">integrity</a>: his <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Family.">children</a> <i>are</i> blessed after him.
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A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 25: 5.">scattereth</a> away all evil with his eyes.
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Who can say, I have made my heart <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 3: 23.">clean</a>, I am pure from my <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 49: 8; D&C 109: 34.">sin</a>?
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Divers weights, <i>and</i> divers measures, both of them <i>are</i> alike abomination to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Even a child is known by his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 7: 16 (16-20).">doings</a>, whether his <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Work, Value of.">work</a> <i>be</i> pure, and whether <i>it be</i> right.
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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath made even both of them.
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Love not <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Laziness.">sleep</a>, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, <i>and</i> thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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<i>It is</i> naught, <i>it is</i> naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Boasting.">boasteth</a>.
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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge <i>are</i> a precious <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 28: 18 (12-19).">jewel</a>.
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Take his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 27: 13.">garment</a> that is surety <i>for</i> a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/17a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Food gained by fraudulent means.">Bread</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Deceit.">deceit</a> <i>is</i> sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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<i>Every</i> purpose is established by <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 69: 4.">counsel</a>: and with good <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 14: 31.">advice</a> make <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/18c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 24: 6.">war</a>.
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He that goeth about <i>as</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Gossip.">talebearer</a> revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Flattery.">flattereth</a> with his lips.
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Whoso curseth his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 19: 26; 1 Ne. 2: 11; Mosiah 13: 20.">father</a> or his mother, his <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 18: 5.">lamp</a> shall be put out in obscure <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 26: 15.">darkness</a>.
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An inheritance <i>may be</i> gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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Say not thou, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Forbearance; TG Retribution.">recompense</a> evil; <i>but</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 25: 5; Ps. 27: 14; Isa. 40: 31; 2 Ne. 6: 13 (7, 13); D&C 98: 2.">wait</a> on the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and he shall save thee.
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Divers weights <i>are</i> an abomination unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/23a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR deceptive scales (i.e. made to deceive).">a</a> false balance <i>is</i> not good.
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Man’s <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 10: 23.">goings</a> <i>are</i> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; how can a man then understand his own way?
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<i>It is</i> a snare to the man <i>who</i> devoureth <i>that which is</i> holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
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A wise <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Kings, Earthly.">king</a> scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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The spirit of man <i>is</i> the candle of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
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Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Glory.">glory</a> of young men <i>is</i> their strength: and the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/20/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Beauty.">beauty</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/20/29c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Old Age.">old</a> men <i>is</i> the <sup>d</sup><a href="prov/20/29d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 32; Prov. 16: 31.">gray</a> head.
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The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so <i>do</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/20/30a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE flogging, strokes, blows.">stripes</a> the inward parts of the belly.
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